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Finally, some better news in the home front.
But news and polls don't matter - what matters is actually voting.
In fact, you don't even have to follow any infotainment, which is still bad for your mental health, and you already have ALL the information and infotainment you need to act correctly:
TUNE OUT, SPEAK SOFTLY, VOTE DEMOCRAT IN NOVEMBER
I almost admire the way you've distilled Democratic messaging down to it's very essence. "Don't think, just vote. All media but captured mainstream sources are infotainment and will make you sad, so only listen to the vapid elites!"
Sure, yes, please, everyone vote for the Democrata this fall. But this messaging is everything that led to the rise of Trump and his band of fascists in the first place.
Ok, I'll bite.
What I am saying is that right-wing political propaganda is everywhere you look, and it is not designed to inform, but to manipulate via cherry-picked half-facts and outright lies, appealing to emotions. And the 24-hour "news" cycle, in its' mindless algorithm-driven quest to grab eyeballs, is constantly looking for soundbites and manufactured drama to crank out and amplify. And that includes a HUGE amount of divide-and-conquer bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe bullshit.
I've been paying attention to republican words and actions since around their hypocritical, totally manufactured Clinton impeachment political circus. That's around a quarter of a century. It also coincides with the rise of assholes like murdoch and limbaugh, their spreading from the airwaves to online and social media.
The ONLY thing you will find there is greed, ignorance and dysfunction, a constant diet of red meat until what you get is the tail wagging the rabid dog.
There is no need to normalize this constant barrage. You want to know what Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris stand for? Look at their voting record while in previous posts. Apply context of the times and how they've learned and changed, and accept them as imperfect humans, not as the plastic political reality-television figurines projected everywhere you look, because that's all just shallow but incredibly loud noise.
All the information you EVER need to vote Democrat every single time, until these fascist republican assholes fizzle out and stop being a clear and present danger, you already have. For the sake of your mental and emotional health:
TUNE OUT, SPEAK SOFTLY, VOTE DEMOCRAT EVERY NOVEMBER.
Well said!